Exact-spec packaging search with live price, stock, shipping, and cart handoff.
Packrift MCP is a hosted Model Context Protocol server for ecommerce packaging procurement. It helps AI agents find exact-spec Packrift packaging products, confirm live pricing and inventory, compare alternatives, estimate shipping, and hand off tracked carts to Packrift checkout.
The server is designed for buyers and AI agents that need packaging supplies by SKU, dimensions, product family, or fulfillment use case. Product-facing tools are gated to Packrift's AI-approved catalog and include no-match guidance when an exact fit is not available.
- No API key is required for the hosted remote MCP endpoint:
https://mcp.packrift.com/mcp. SHOPIFY_PACKRIFT_TOKEN(optional): Required only if self-hosting live Shopify-backed catalog, pricing, inventory, shipping, and cart tools.SHOPIFY_STORE_DOMAIN(optional): Defaults topackrift.myshopify.com.STOREFRONT_DOMAIN(optional): Defaults topackrift.com.- Canonical
server.jsonis remote-only so crawlers should not classify the public Packrift MCP as token-required.
- Primary hosted endpoint:
https://mcp.packrift.com/mcp - Glama hosted connector: https://glama.ai/mcp/connectors/io.github.Packrift/packrift-mcp
- MCP Marketplace listing: https://mcp-marketplace.io/server/io-github-packrift-packrift-mcp
- Official MCP Registry search: https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=Packrift
- MCP install matrix: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/mcp-install-matrix.json
- Live tool discovery JSON: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/mcp-tools.json
- Live tool discovery Markdown: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/spec-finder-tools.md
- MCP server card: https://mcp.packrift.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
- MCP Marketplace discovery manifest: https://mcp.packrift.com/.well-known/mcp-marketplace.json
- MCP source activation sitemap: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/mcp-source-activation-sitemap.xml
- MCP directory submit actions: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/mcp-directory-submit-actions.json
- MCP directory update card template: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/mcp-directory-update/{source}.json
- MCP external activation brief: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/mcp-external-activation-brief.json
- MCP external activation brief HTML: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/mcp-external-activation-brief.html
- MCP external activation selected-task JSONL: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/mcp-external-activation-brief-tasks.jsonl
- MCP external activation selected-task CSV: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/mcp-external-activation-brief-tasks.csv
- MCP external activation guarded runner: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/mcp-external-activation-brief-runner.sh
- MCP activation experiments: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/mcp-activation-experiments.json
- MCP adoption kit: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/mcp-adoption-kit.json
- MCP agent capture outreach packet: https://mcp.packrift.com/ai/agent-capture-outreach.json
- Source repository: https://github.com/Packrift/packrift-mcp
Business Tools
- Search Packrift packaging supplies by SKU, dimensions, product type, or use case.
- Retrieve AI-approved product records with title, handle, SKU, dimensions, and purchase links.
- Check live inventory and pricing for exact Packrift SKUs.
- Estimate shipping for packaging orders before checkout.
- Recommend boxes, mailers, labels, tape, bags, stretch film, and other packaging families.
- Compare alternatives when an exact packaging spec is unavailable.
- Generate Packrift cart handoff URLs with MCP attribution for measurement.
- Discover purchase-ready cart candidates for priority AI-approved SKUs.
- Provide copy-ready remote MCP install paths and smoke tests for common agent hosts.
- Map buyer use cases into exact MCP tool paths for qualified AI-commerce demand.
- Provide structured JSON plus agent-readable summaries for buyer workflows.
- Expose public REST discovery surfaces for tools, resources, server cards, and health checks.
- Expose selected external activation task feeds so marketplaces, reviewers, and automation hosts can run source-attributed MCP workflows without creating a duplicate Packrift CLI or checkout surface.
- "Find 10 x 6 x 6 corrugated boxes and give me the live Packrift price."
- "Compare Packrift alternatives for a 12 x 9 x 5 shipping box."
- "Create a tracked cart URL for SKU 1066."
- "Show priority Packrift cart handoff candidates for AI procurement agents."
- "Show the Packrift MCP install matrix for Claude, Codex, IDE agents, Glama, and browser agents."
- "Show buyer use cases for Packrift MCP and the best tool flow for each."
Current hosted tool count: 15.
- Tool:
search_products— Find matching Packrift packaging products from natural-language specs. - Tool:
get_product— Retrieve full detail for a specific AI-approved SKU or handle. - Tool:
get_pricing— Confirm live price for a specific SKU. - Tool:
check_inventory— Confirm availability for a specific SKU. - Tool:
get_shipping_estimate— Estimate shipping for a Packrift packaging order. - Tool:
find_packaging_for_item— Recommend packaging from item dimensions or use case. - Tool:
get_cart_handoff_candidates— Return priority MCP cart handoff candidates. - Tool:
compare_alternatives— Compare viable Packrift packaging alternatives. - Tool:
pack_calculator— Calculate a recommended packaging fit. - Tool:
inventory_status— Summarize inventory status for buyer handoff. - Tool:
create_cart_url— Generate an attributed Packrift checkout handoff. - Tool:
prepare_purchase_handoff— One-call exact-SKU confirmation path that checks product, price, inventory, and guarded cart handoff. - Tool:
get_reorder_link— Return reorder and product URLs for repeat procurement. - Tool:
get_bulk_quote_link— Route large-volume or no-exact-match requests to tracked bulk quote recovery. - Tool:
explain_no_exact_match— Explain exact-match gaps and prevent nearby products from being presented as exact.
mcp, ecommerce, packaging, procurement, shopify, inventory, shipping, cart-handoff, remote-mcp, business-tools, exact-spec, ai-commerce